GeForce RTX 2080 vs Radeon RX 480 Mobile

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated67
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data27.31
Power efficiencyno data15.53
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameEllesmereTU104
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date4 August 2016 (8 years ago)20 September 2018 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$450 $699

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores23042944
Core clock speed1000 MHz1515 MHz
Boost clock speed1077 MHz1710 MHz
Number of transistors5,700 million13,600 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)100 Watt215 Watt
Texture fill rate155.1314.6
Floating-point processing power4.963 TFLOPS10.07 TFLOPS
ROPs3264
TMUs144184
Tensor Coresno data368
Ray Tracing Coresno data46

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargeno data
InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)PCIe 3.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount8 GB8 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed2000 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth256.0 GB/s448.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputs1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
HDMI-+
G-SYNC support-+

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

VR Readyno data+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_0)12 Ultimate (12_1)
Shader Model6.46.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.01.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 August 2016 20 September 2018
Chip lithography 14 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 100 Watt 215 Watt

RX 480 Mobile has 115% lower power consumption.

RTX 2080, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years, and a 16.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 480 Mobile and GeForce RTX 2080. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 480 Mobile is a notebook card while GeForce RTX 2080 is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon RX 480 Mobile
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